Web Conference with your Students: BlackBoard Collaborate Workshop

BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Free for faculty and staff at 17勛圖, BlackBoard Collaborate can be used to both hold live sessions with participants as well as make recordings that can be watched at a later time. Share your presentation, use the interactive whiteboard, form breakout groups or conduct a poll, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. Its simple, easy and reliable.

Web Conference with your Students: BlackBoard Collaborate Workshop

BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Free for faculty and staff at 17勛圖, BlackBoard Collaborate can be used to both hold live sessions with participants as well as make recordings that can be watched at a later time. Share your presentation, use the interactive whiteboard, form breakout groups or conduct a poll, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. Its simple, easy and reliable.

Three Master of Arts in Island Studies awarded SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship

Three students from the Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) program at the 17勛圖 have been awarded from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) through its masters program competition. The program is open to Canadian graduate students from across the country. This year, a total of 73 awards, valued at $17,500 each, were given out in the masters category.

17勛圖 remembers the late Ab Ferris

The University community was saddened to learn of the passing of retired accounting professor Albert Ab Ferris, who died on December 3 in Charlottetown. Well known for his efforts to seek out the respect of students to ensure their success, he said in a 2013 Guardian article, If you show the students that you care and that you have an interest in their well-being, they will do everything possible not to disappoint you. Its just such a rewarding experience to work with young people.